Vaginal electrode



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A. W. TIPTON;

- VAGINAL ELECTRODE. No. 268,316. Patented Nov. 28,1882.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

ALBERT VV'. TIPTON, OF JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS.

VAGINAL ELECTRODE.

'SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,316, dated November 28, 1882.

Application filedMay10,18B2. (N model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT W. TIPTON, of Jacksonville in the county of Morgan and State of Illinois. have invented a new and improved Vaginal Electrode, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved electrode for harmonizing the electrical or relaxed and contracted states of the uterus and for bringing it to the normal state.

The invention consists in an electrode formed of a tube made of a metal section and a hardrubber section placed parallel to each other and united, to which tube a bell or cup is hinged, which is formed of a metal section and a hardrubber section united to each other. The tube is provided with devices for receiving or attaching an electrical conductor.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation of my improved vaginal electrode. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same on the line 543 Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the cup or hell. Fig. 4 is a sectional plan view of the tube on the line :0 a, Fig. 2.

A cup-shaped vessel or hell, A, is formed of two sections, A A, which are secured to a stud, a, projecting from a metal ball, B, fitting within a socket, G, of a ball-and-socket joint.

The section A is made of hard rubber and the section A is made of metal, which is preferably nickel-plated. The socket G is provided with a threaded stem, 0, screwed into a block, D, in the upper end of a tube, ll, f0rmed of two united semi-cylindrical sections, E E of which'the section E is made of hard rubber and the section E is made of metal, preferably nickel-plated. A socketreceptacle or tube, F, for receiving a conducting-wire or the metal plug at the end of an electrical conductingcord, is attached to the lower end of the tube E. A pin, G, is passed through the socket O and a slot of the ball B, so that the cup can be inclined on the transverse line yg only, and not on a line at right angles to this line 51 The operation is as follows: In case of retroversion the electrode is introduced into the vagina until it comes in contactwith the 0s uteri and the metallic part A of the cup. or hell is in contact with the contracted muscles of the uterus, which is easily ascertained by digital examination before introducing the electrode. The electric conductor connected with the negative pole of the generator is attached to the electrode by being passed into the tube or receptacle F. The electric conductor, connected with the positive pole ofthe generator, is attached to asponge cup or holder, which is applied to the cerebellum, the nerveceuters between the upper parts of the shoulders, and toother parts of the body. During this operation the electrode is turned more or less one way or the other, so as to bring the metallic part of the cup or bell A in contact with all the contracted muscles while treating them. Then the positive conductor is connected with the vaginal electrode and the electrode is introduced so that the metallic part of the cup or hell will be in contact with the relaxed muscles of the uterus. The negative conductor is connected with the sponge-cup, and this spongecup is applied on the abdomen for about ten minutes, and to other parts of the body, as the circumstances or special case may require.

The above-described instrument is to be used for correcting the electrical or relaxed and contracted statesln anteversion and retroversion or anteflexiou and retroflexion of the uterus, wherebythe contracted muscles will be relaxed and lengthened, the relaxed muscles will be contracted and strengthened, and the electrical states of the muscles will be brought to the normal condition.

I am aware that electrodes have before been used for a similar purpose, some in the form of a ball to act in the orifice of and others in the form-of a ring to not around the 0s uteri, but all having flexible or elastic bodies, which I do not claim but What I claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a vaginal electrode, the combination, with a tube formed of a metal sectionand a hard-rubber section placed parallel to each other and united, of a hell or cup pivoted to one end of this tube, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set 3. In a vaginal electrode, the combination, with the tube E, of the cup or bell A, hinged to one end of the same, and the tube or receptacle F for the electrical conductor, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

ALBERT W. TIPTON.

Witnesses W. A. BROWN, CHARLES L. HASTINGS. 

